leave the tribe

Mark 2

13 Then Jesus went out to the lakeshore again and taught the crowds that were coming to him.

14 As he walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector's booth. 

"Follow me and be my disciple," Jesus said to him. 

So Levi got up and followed him.



  15 Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. 

(There were many people of this kind among Jesus' followers.)

16 But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, 

"Why does he eat with such scum?*"



  17 When Jesus heard this, he told them, 

"Healthy people don't need a doctor—sick people do. 

I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners."


We've become so tribal.

We only want to hang out with "our kind".

Let us NEVER forget that if the people who influenced us to follow Jesus had felt that way, you & I would still be going slam to hell!


Our mandate is remains the same as what Jesus Himself said...

"I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners."


Leave the prissy & precious tribe behind - go connect with people who do not know Jesus, or could care less about Him - just like someone did for you & for me...